Need New Laptop!!!!

[pts2800]

NEED NEW Laptop before september

requirements
-$1500 or less
-just going to be work station (one more year of boarding life in high school, and then collage)
-watching movies
-playing simple games (primarly battle for middle earth 1 and 2)
-no bigger then 17inch
-wanna stay away from dell (i've had bad expernces with there laptops)


HP 2133
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC (KX869AT) specifications - HP Small & Medium Business products
what i like: small and powerful for its size, cheep.
what i dont like: worried about using linux (never used it before) not being conpatible is OpenOffice to MS word, or to what evey macs use.
(probibly going to by monitor for it, and external CD drive)

MacBook
The Apple Store (U.S.)
what i like: quility, boot camp, light weight
what i dont like: $$$


which one would you guys suggest? if you got other sujestions post a link of it.

 

[Eric1]

I have never owned a Toshiba personally, but some of my friends have and said they are great laptops.

Laptop & Notebook Computers, Projectors and Accessories - Toshiba

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

A good laptop 17" is the HP dv9700t. It's good for just about everything besides ultra-intense gaming (like Crysis, many lower powered games like The Orange Box run very well). The screen is very nice and very portable. The PC is fairly light as well.

I prefer a larger but powerful (read "useful") laptop as opposed to a small, portable, underpowered subnotebook (read "useless for most games, video editors, photo editors, 3d apps, etc").